Lee Devin taught theater while doing a PhD at Indiana University (1958-62), then at the University of Virginia (1962-66), Vassar College (1966-70), and Swarthmore College (1970-2002). He's an Equity actor and has played leading roles in productions from Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams. He has a residuals check from SAG in the amount of $0.01, to commemorate a brilliant movie career. With Rob Austin of the Copenhagen Business School he wrote Artful Making; What Managers Need to Know about How Artists Work, published in 2003. Stanford University Press published their next book, The Soul of Design: Harnessing the Power of Plot to Create Extraordinary Products, about the aesthetics of special things (gadgets that are better somehow than the sum of their parts would lead you to believe), in September of 2012. He and Rob have written numerous articles, including (with Erin Sullivan) Ooops, which appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Lee's a Senior Consultant in the Innovation practice at the Cutter Consortium, for whom he wrote An Innovative Frame of Mind and Planning to Get Lucky. He has taught many workshops at Agile meetings, Scrum gatherings, and software conferences. He has collaborated on various projects with Stacia Viscardi and Lyssa Adkins. He's also the Senior Dramaturg at the People's Light and Theatre and currently at work on writing projects that interfere with his trout fishing, and cause him to neglect his grandchildren.

Steve Spearman is an Agile coach and trainer. He has 30 years of experience in corporate software development settings including 20 years in a variety of leadership roles. Steve has been a software developer, architect, project manager, and a senior manager of teams encompassing all those areas. His enterprise experience includes Bell Laboratories, Lucent, Avaya, and Cisco Systems.

Steve is now providing Agile-focused training and coaching to companies ranging from late-stage startups to large corporations. Steve is associated with a number of leading firms, such as AgileEvolution, SwiftAscent, and TekSystems.

Steve has a BA in Psychology and a Masters in Computer Science. His certifications include: PMI-ACP, PMP, CSP, Certified Scrum Product Owner, Certified ScrumMaster, and SAFe Program Consultant.